Quotes About Badger

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

Home again I swiftly glide Back to my beautiful bride She'll not feel so rotten As soon as she's gotten Some cider inside her inside 'Oh poor Mrs Badger, he cried, So hungry she very near died. But she'll not feel so hollow If only she'll swallow Some cider inside her inside.' ---Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ronald Dhal

But when their infants were fractious and quite beyond control, they would quiet them by telling how, if they didn't hush them and not fret them, the terrible grey Badger would up and get them. This was a base libel on Badger, who, though he cared little about Society, was rather fond of children; but it never failed to have its full effect.

WHOSE hour, you should rather say,' replied the Badger. 'Why, Toad's hour! The hour of Toad! I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over, and I'm going to take him in hand to-day!

Senator Badger did not call. During the whole of the last session of Congress, he did not call on me. He is a bitter partisan and is no doubt sensible that during the presidential canvass of 1844, he did me gross injustice.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.

After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the location of every sett in the woods around my childhood home, but rarely saw them with my own eyes.

There are too many organisations - and the BBC is a fabulous organisation - that seem to think it's OK to badger, hector and threaten people.

Rough as a badger's arse

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger!" Graypaw stopped his careful stalking to wander comically across the clearing "I will have to settle for hunting stupid mice I shall just wander up to them, and sit on them until they surrender!

Give me a badger ride," she demanded.

Mousefur's as cranky as a badger with a sore paw," Foxpaw went on. "We never get any thanks." "No, it's always, 'It's too damp,' or 'There are thorns in there,'" Icepaw whispered back.

I had come into this affair with my eyes open, knowing that one day this must end, and yet, when the sense of insecurity, the logical belief in the hopeless future descended like melancholia, I would badger her and badger her, as though I wanted to bring the future in now at the door, an unwanted and premature guest.

The Pueblo story is that everyone started out underground. People and animals, everything. And then the badger dug a hole and let everybody out. They climbed out the hole and from then on they lived on top of the ground. When they die they go back under. […] 'I always try to think of it that way,' he said, after a minute. "He had a big adventure up here, and then went home.

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his careful stalking to stagger comically across the clearing. "I think I'll have to settle for hunting stupid mice. They won't stand a chance. I'll just wander up to them and sit on them till they surrender.

Take no notice of Jaypaw," he mewed to Heatherpaw. "He's as grumpy as a badger.

This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits." "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.

All right now. That's it!" the Irish priest snapped from the front of the church. "We'll have none of that grizzly shit in this holy house of my Lord. And you, badger, find a seat somewhere else." When Freddy didn't move, the tiger priest warned, "Don't make me tear that puny head from your shoulders, my good lad. Because we both know I will, now don't we?

He was thinking of Max MacKilligan as his girlfriend? The crazy female who'd decimated an entire team of well-trained mercenaries with her badger teammates? Or who didn't seem too concerned that he'd almost eaten a child? That woman he was thinking of as his girlfriend?

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey. You're drinking tea a honey badger made, Jim said. What did you expect?

january 21 Cloudy and still. On the sunny, southerly face of a cutbank, a badger has scooped a new burrow, turning the slope inside out and pouring it full of the very worst kind of darkness, the kind animals own, like the mad black slit in a goat's eye.